Friday, May 27, 2011

Wait before forming an Opinion!

A short story that I read and found very inspirational.
' Once an Old man was travelling in the train with his 25year old son.
As the train was passing through natural scenic beauties, the son would get excited and show his dad...
'Dad look, clouds...dad look such farms and pastures of green land!'

Like a child he would show his father the landscapes with a twinkle in his eye and his father would smile in return and be happy.

The other people travelling in the compartment, found his behaviour very childlike. Seeing a 25year old getting excited on seeing landscapes like this was very unnatural for them. One of them could not control himself and told the Old man, 'Sir, your son's behaviour is unnatural , maybe you should visit a hospital.'

To this, the old man replied ' thank you for your concern, but me and my son are just coming back from the hospital. My son just got his eye vision back and is able to see for the first time in his life'.

Moral of the story:
Put yourself in the other person's shoes and think of his circumstances before forming your judgement or opinion.
Most people have a habit of forming an opinion of others without knowing all the facts!

Nikita

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